From: Paul Gardiner <osronline@glidos.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:12:16 GMT
Subject: Re: How to find where a branch was taken from.
Message-ID: <47E4F7A0.6060702@glidos.net>
In-Reply-To: <32541b130803211039h1f5b8da5k8fb353d46e57b05e@mail.gmail.com>

Avery Pennarun wrote:
> Alternatively, we could avoid tracking anything extra at all.  If git
> could suggest a branch or tag that mine is "currently closest to",
> ie., the one that has as many of the commits from my branch as
> possible (even if it has additional commits that I don't have), then
> that might be the branch I'm interested in.

Yes, that's exactly what I need too. I need to produce it
programatically. I notice gitk displays, for each commit,
the branches that include it. If I knew a command for
deriving that, I could iterate through HEAD, HEAD~1, HEAD~2...
until I see a remote branch.

P.